To:HIS SISTER ANNA

Written:Written February 11, 1914Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXV.

      Sent from Krakow.

      Printed from a typewritten copy (made by the police).Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 37,

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AnnaIlyinichna Yelizarova,Goncharnaya Street, 11, Apt. 23,St. Petersburg,Russia

DearAnyuta,

Atlast I am home after a long absence; I found and read
all your letters, and today another one came, the one you
thought might not arrive. We have them all. You were
right about the delay with the articles, but there is nothing
I can do. I have only two hands.ProsveshcheniyeNo. 1 has
not arrived, although I have received a newspaper with a
notice that it has been published. You are also delaying
things. I am going to write about the self-determination of
nations—perhaps it will be in time for
No. 2.[2]

Pleasesend meProletarskaya PravdaNo. 11 (2 copies),Put PravdyNo. 2,Novaya Rabochaya GazetaNo. 8
(126)[3]—
do not ask anybody else to send them (that is hopeless)
but send them yourself.

Withregard to the summaries of crime statistics for
1905–1908, I would ask you not to buy them (there is no
need, they are expensive) but to get them from a library
(either the Bar Council or the Duma Library) and send
them for a month. (Many thanks for the journal of the
Ministry of Justice—I hope you got it back.) I heard that
you people crossed out of the article on the
X affair[1]something against the liquidators and I was very angry at
this inappropriate and harmful conciliation; you are only
helping the foul slander of the liquidators, delaying the
inevitable process of chucking such scoundrels as Galina,
Martov, Dan and others out of the working-class movement. You
won’t succeed in anything but disgracing yourselves. I am
really mad at the disgusting blackmail engineered by
Martov & Co. in the X affair; we shall gradually crush that gang
of blackmailers.

Ihave not written home for a long time. I hope everything
is all right there. Drop me a line or two.

Ihave just receivedProsveshcheniyeNo. 1.
Congratulations. In general it is good. Except for the misprints.... And
the review of Levitsky’s book with the foolish word
“factionally” in
it....[4]Who let that go through? Who is the
author? N.K. will write about the women’s
magazine.[5]

[1]Forthe case of X (Danski, B. G.) seeCollected Works, Vol. 20,
p. 524.—Ed.

[2]Thisarticle, “The Right of Nations to Self-Determination”, was
written between February and May 1914 and printed in the April,
May and June issues ofProsveshcheniye(Nos. 4, 5 and 6) (seeCollected Works, Vol. 20, pp. 393–454).

[3]NovayaRabochaya Gazeta, Nasha Rabochaya Gazeta, Severnaya
Rabochaya Gazeta(New Workers’ Gazette, Our Workers’ Gazette,
Northern Workers’ Gazette) was the legal newspaper of the
Menshevik liquidators published in St. Petersburg in 1913 and 1914.[4]ThebookAugust Bebel. His Life and Work. 1840–1913was written
by V. Levitsky (V. O. Zederbauin) and reviewed in the journalProsveshcheniyeNo. 1 for 1914 by V. Yan-sky (S. S. Danilov).[5]Thisrefers to the journalRabotnitsa(The Working Woman)published legally in St. Petersburg from February 23 to June 26,
1914. The first issue appeared on International Women’s Day,
February 23 (March 8). Seven issues appeared. Active collaborators
were Nadezhda Krupskaya, Inessa Armand, Lyudmila Stal, Anna
Ulyanova-Yelizarova and others.Furtherinformation about the publication of the journal is
to be found in Krupskaya’s letter b. 48) to Lenin’s sister Anna

Letter No. 247 __PROGRESS_COMMENT_

[4]ThebookAugust Bebel. His Life and Work. 1840–1913was written
by V. Levitsky (V. O. Zederbauin) and reviewed in the journalProsveshcheniyeNo. 1 for 1914 by V. Yan-sky (S. S. Danilov).

[5]Thisrefers to the journalRabotnitsa(The Working Woman)published legally in St. Petersburg from February 23 to June 26,
1914. The first issue appeared on International Women’s Day,
February 23 (March 8). Seven issues appeared. Active collaborators
were Nadezhda Krupskaya, Inessa Armand, Lyudmila Stal, Anna
Ulyanova-Yelizarova and others.

Furtherinformation about the publication of the journal is
to be found in Krupskaya’s letter b. 48) to Lenin’s sister Anna

Letter No. 247 __PROGRESS_COMMENT_